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KON 4Th Edition Spring 2019 Spring Camel Driver to Law Student: One Man's AN ICONIC PAKISTANI Amazing MOSQUE'S Journey PLAZA IS PUBLIC ONCE MORE SPRING EDITION Editor in Chief Christopher Fitzgerald – Minister Counselor for Public Affairs Managing Editor Richard Snelsire – Embassy Spokesperson Associate Editor Donald Cordell, Wasim Abbas Background Khabr-o-Nazar is a free magazine published by U.S. Embassy, Islamabad Stay Connected Khabr-o-Nazar, Public Affairs Section U.S. Embassy, Ramna 5, Diplomatic Enclave Islamabad, Pakistan Email [email protected] Website http://pk.usembassy.gov/education.culture/khabr_o_nazar.html Magazine is designed & printed by GROOVE ASSOCIATES Telephone: 051-2620098 Mobile: 0345-5237081 flicker.com/photos www.youtube.com/- @usembislamabad www.facebook.com/ www.twitter.com/use- /usembpak c/usembpak pakistan.usembassy mbislamabad CCoonnttenentt 04 EVENTS 'Top Chef' Contestant Fatima Ali 06 on How Cancer Changed A CHAT WITH the Way She Cooks ACTING DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY 08 HENRY ENSHER A New Mission Through a unique summer camp iniave, Islamabad's police forge bonds with their communies — one family at a me 10 Cities of the Sun Meet Babcock Ranch, a groundbreaking model 12 for sustainable communies of the future. Young Pakistani Scholars Preparing to Tackle Pakistan's 14 Energy Crisis Camel Driver to Law Student: One Man's 16 Amazing Journey Consular Corner Are you engaged to or dang a U.S. cizen? 18 An Iconic Pakistani Mosque’s Plaza 19 Is Public Once More From February 25 to March 8, English Language Specialist Dr. Loe Baker, conducted a series of professional development workshops for English teachers from universies across the country. The training, co-sponsored by Mission Pakistan's Regional English Language Office (RELO) and the Pakistan Higher Educaon Commission (HEC), focused on curriculum design and instrucon for teachers with less than five years of experience. E V E spri In honor of Women's History Month, the U.S. Embassy live-streamed a panel discussion on "Challenges Faced by Female Journalists." Amber Rahim Shamsi (Samaa TV) moderated the discussion and was joined by Fakhira Najeeb (Power 99 FM), Amina Amir (Geo News), Saima Imran (Nawa-i-waqt) and Sarah Hassan E D I T I O (VOA Urdu). The live audience included media and communicaon students from NUST and Bahria University of Islamabad. On March 22, the U.S. Embassy hosted “Girls Go Digital,” the first ever On March 21, the U.S. Embassy hosted young female soccer enthusiasts female coding workshop at the Lincoln Corner at the Internaonal from various football clubs around Islamabad. Aendees watched the Islamic University (IIU). The three-day workshop was aended by over 20 movie "Alex & Me" and parcipated in a virtual Q&A session with U.S. girls from various academic facules. At the conclusion of the program, Women's Naonal Team star, Olympic gold medalist, and FIFA World Cup Angela Cerve, Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy, Champion Alex Morgan. The event used sports to promote gender presented cerficates of compleon to all the parcipants. equality. KHABAR 04 NAZAR During his first visit to Lahore, Ambassador Paul Jones experienced Pakistan's famous hospitality in meengs with government, business, civil society, and media representaves. Ambassador Jones also parcipated in the opening of an FIA regional office and a visit to the Lahore Fort. T S g Media students from the Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ), IBA learned creave wring techniques from the vising American poet, journalist, essayist 2 0 1 9 and translator Dr. Christopher Merrill. Merrill is the Director of the Internaonal N Wring Program at the University of Iowa. On March 29 and April 4, the U.S. Consulate in Karachi and the U.S. The U.S. Embassy's weekly radio show 'Tea Time with the U.S.' celebrated Embassy in Islamabad hosted their U.S. Independence Day fesvies Women's History Month in March by airing 4 consecuve shows respecvely. The events featured the vising U.S. Central Command Air highlighng the contribuons of influenal Pakistani women. We Force band “Drop Zone,” which serenaded the guests from across hosted football star Sana Mahmud, author Dr. Sabyn Javeri, and Pakistan with classic and modern rock and roll, country, and pop music. singer/songwriters Maria Uner and Zoha Zuberiin recognion of their outstanding contribuons to their fields. Tea Time with the U.S. is aired every Tuesday between 6:00 to 7:00 pm on Radio Power FM 99. KHABAR 05 NAZAR If I lie absolutely sll, the room stops spinning, and my stomach doesn't wretch. The menon of food makes me feel violently ill, but I've lost ten pounds in six days and I'm afraid if I don't force myself to eat I'll stop recognizing myself in the mirror. I make a half-hearted request for daal chawal to my mother. Yellow lenls and rice. A staple in Pakistan, and something I ate oen growing up. I've surprised myself; wracked with post-chemo side effects, my brain is hardwired to derive comfort from the familiar. I start thinking about food tentavely, tesng out the images of biryani and karhai in my mind. The nausea stays at 'Top Chef' bay. The doctors had warned me about changes to my taste buds when I was diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma—iron Contestant and rot taking over sweet and savory on my tongue. I suppose it makes sense that I would want foods with flavor to combat the blanket of cobwebs in my mouth. Was it because I'm a chef, or because I am Pakistani? Fatima Ali Maybe my identy is split exactly in half, and the only me I derive pleasure is when the two sides overlap. I spent years cooking all types of food in New York City on How Cancer Changed aer graduang from culinary school. Then, two years ago, I quit my job at one the largest restaurant groups in the Way She Cooks the country and went back to Pakistan for a few months to reabsorb the food of my childhood. I wanted to open my own restaurant back in New York. I wanted to cook the food I first knew. I make plans to cook for the holidays in my home kitchen, despite worried protests from my family who moved halfway across the world to take care of me. They want me to rest and avoid the dangers of cuts and Fama Ali is a Pakistani-American Chef and 'Fan burns, but they know I can't stay away. The night before Favorite' winner of the popular U.S. cooking compeon Thanksgiving, I'm crying frustratedly in my hospital bed. show 'Top Chef.' The daughter of former Aorney My own body had given itself an infecon and the General Ashtar Ausaf Ali, 'Chef Fa' moved to the United doctors are debang my release. I hold my nurse's hand States at age 18 to pursue her love of cooking. Following as tears stream down my face. It could almost be her successful appearance on 'Top Chef,' Fama began to comical, my crying over missing the turkey. “I need to go feel a pain in her le shoulder, later diagnosed as Ewing's home and cook,” I tell her. Sarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer. Despite a seemingly successful inial round of treatment, the Christmas and New Year's Eve are spent laying the table cancer returned in fall 2018, eventually taking her life on with dish aer dish from the kitchen. Garam masala January 25, 2019. Following her inial treatment, roasted duck, cornbread pistachio stuffing, rose water prominent food magazine Bon Appét published the bundt cake. Somehow the dates line up with my below essay wrien by Fama Ali detailing her love of chemotherapy recovery weeks, and I have the strength Pakistani food, cooking, and her fight against cancer. to spend the day slowly dicing, slicing, and icing. It feels like someone up there is looking out for me, aer all. A surgery to remove the tumor has excavated 30 percent of bone and ssue from my scapula, permanently affecng my range of moon. I'll never be able to high-five my friends with my le hand again. Will I be able to cook? How will I withstand a busy Saturday night service, jumping behind the line when my sous chef can't keep KHABAR 06 NAZAR up? Maybe I'll become the one who can't keep up. I picture myself trying to work the tandoor oven with one arm. It's a bleak thought. Establishing the perfect rhythm of slapping naan dough against the furnace-hot walls while simultaneously rotang the skewers of various marinated meats so they don't burn to a crisp is skilled and ambidextrous work. The edges of my thoughts are nged with worry, but I know that my love for food and cooking is so strong inside me that even cancer can't cut it down. I dream in vivid color—of Pad Thai and pasna, and, in my haze of medical-marijuana-induced munchies, I chow down, relishing every bite. (Weed has been my savior, allowing me to enjoy food again and keeping the nausea at bay during my chemo weeks.) I dream of my future restaurant, where the kebabs melt against your tongue and the cocktails are just sweet enough to calm the burn. I have never felt more fulfilled than when I let myself crawl into bed late night aer a back-breaking day of cooking. I remember that feeling like phantom aches in my bones. Ticket aer cket, call aer call. I dream of being beer.
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